Justin Welby, the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, was brought up by an
“alcoholic” father whose secret life he only recently discovered.

The Bishop of Durham, who takes over leadership of the Church next year, has
described for the first time the difficulty he faced as a teenager at Eton
dealing with his father Gavin’s alcohol dependency.

“It wasn’t an easy upbringing. Living with someone who’s got an alcohol
dependency is complicated, to put it at its mildest,” Bishop Welby told The
Sunday Telegraph. “He was very affectionate, brilliant intellectually
but quite demanding.”